School officials say that security and local police are investigating the report and that all classes and "nonessential activities" on campus have been suspended in order to hold a schoolwide discussion on the "challenging issues that have faced our community in recent weeks." Here's a snippet of the email sent to students today:

"We are here to notify you all that there has been yet another bias and racist event on campus. A person wearing KKK regalia was spotted on South Campus around midnight near the ELC and South. This has been another event in a string of several reflecting a terrible pattern of racism, prejudice, queerphobia, anti-semitism and other bias attacks that are happening on Oberlin's campus. At this time, advocacy, support and solidarity are necessary emotionally, physically and spiritually."

Oberlin was founded in 1833 and would become a stop on the Underground Railroad during the 1800s. While the school wasn't the first to admit a black student, it became the first to establish race-blind admissions in 1835 and to grant a degree to an African-American woman in 1862, according to the Oberlin Heritage Center.